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Samantha Andrews
23 July 2013
Climate Crisis

Pacific Islanders to face climate crisis challenges

Samantha Andrews
23 July 2013
Climate Crisis

If your a Pacific Islander, climate change is likely to be a huge problem.  It all comes down to reliance on local resources, and in many cases these resources come from local marine waters.

Tagged: Aquaculture, Climate Change, Coral Reefs, Food Security, Sea Level Rise

Samantha Andrews
19 July 2013
Fisheries & Aquaculture

Are many Northeast Atlantic fish stocks really being fished sustainably?

Samantha Andrews
19 July 2013
Fisheries & Aquaculture

Cotroversy surrounds a science paper that says many Northeast Atlantic fisheries are sustainable.

Tagged: Fisheries, Fishing, Marine Science, Maximum Sustainable Yield, MSY, Sustainable Seafood

Samantha Andrews
18 July 2013
Conservation, Environment

Nitrification + warming waters = trouble for kelp

Samantha Andrews
18 July 2013
Conservation, Environment

Carbon dioxide and nutrient input interact with each other to impact algal turf growth

Tagged: Algae, Kelp, Marine Pollution, Marine Science, Nitrification, Open Access Science

Samantha Andrews
18 July 2013
Conservation

Welcome to The Plastisphere!

Samantha Andrews
18 July 2013
Conservation

Marine microbes are eating some of the plastic that ends up in the ocean

Tagged: Marine Pollution, Marine Science, Microplastics, Plastics, Pollution

Samantha Andrews
17 July 2013
Fisheries & Aquaculture

Japanese whaling in Antarctica challenged by Australia

Samantha Andrews
17 July 2013
Fisheries & Aquaculture

Japan's research, Australia claims is "a heap of body parts taken from a large number of dead whales"

Tagged: IWC, Whales, Whaling

Samantha Andrews
7 July 2013
Climate Crisis

Ocean acidification could impede Chilean abalone's ability to self-right

Samantha Andrews
7 July 2013
Climate Crisis

Ocean acidification hinders abalones ability to self-right after they have been dislodged

Tagged: Abalone, Marine Biology, Ocean Acidification, Open Access Science

Samantha Andrews
5 July 2013
Conservation, Fisheries & Aquaculture

UK Fishermen set to work cleaning up the oceans

Samantha Andrews
5 July 2013
Conservation, Fisheries & Aquaculture

The ocean is full of litter, and it is difficult to remove it all.  So why not employ the good-will of fishers to remove some of it?

Tagged: Fisheries, Fishing, Marine Litter, Marine Pollution, Ocean Optimism, Ocean Stewardship

Samantha Andrews
3 July 2013
Fisheries & Aquaculture

Move over beef production - aquaculture in the new kid on the block

Samantha Andrews
3 July 2013
Fisheries & Aquaculture

Farmed fish and shellfish is becoming increasingly common in our supermarkets, but did you know that global aquaculture production has now overtaken beef production?

Tagged: Aquaculture, Food Security, Seafood

Samantha Andrews
29 June 2013
Conservation, Environment

Gulf of Mexico's Ocean Dead Zones

Samantha Andrews
29 June 2013
Conservation, Environment

Most life on Earth needs oxygen to survive - even those living in our oceans.  So when oxygen levels in our coastal waters are severely reduced, (hypoxia), and worse still reduced to almost zero levels (anoxia), the impacts can be deadly

Tagged: Dead Zones, Gulf of Mexico, Marine Science, Nitrification

Samantha Andrews
24 June 2013
Conservation

What's wrong with Marine Protected Areas?

Samantha Andrews
24 June 2013
Conservation

Simply calling an area of ocean a 'marine protected area' does not make it so

Tagged: Marine Conservation, Marine Protected Areas, MPAs

Samantha Andrews
19 June 2013
Fisheries & Aquaculture

CCTV reduces fish discards at sea

Samantha Andrews
19 June 2013
Fisheries & Aquaculture

Ideally discards of marine life accidentally caught whilst fishing should be minimized by not catching non-targets in the first place. 

Tagged: Bycatch, Discards, Fisheries, Fishing

Samantha Andrews
10 June 2013
People and the Sea

Sea of miracles: industrial uses for ocean biodiversity

Samantha Andrews
10 June 2013
People and the Sea

We are constantly on the search for ideas on how to improve our current technologies, like those used in agriculture or in medicine.  Searches can lead us to looking into the natural environment, revealing an array of compounds that can prove extremely useful.

Tagged: Bioprospecting, Marine Biology, Medicine

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